{"ID":2844335,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06316","arxiv_id":"2511.06316","title":"ALIGN: A Vision-Language Framework for High-Accuracy Accident Location Inference through Geo-Spatial Neural Reasoning","abstract":"In low- and middle-income countries, public safety and urban planning initiatives frequently face a critical shortage of accurate, location-specific road crash data. Extracting reliable geospatial information from unstructured text requires overcoming the limitations of traditional text-based geocoding tools, which often fail in multilingual environments with ambiguous place descriptions. This study introduces ALIGN (Accident Location Inference through Geo-Spatial Neural Reasoning), a vision-language framework designed to emulate human spatial reasoning to infer precise accident coordinates from unstructured Bangla news reports and map-based cues. A multi stage automated pipeline was developed to process diverse textual and visual data, integrating large language models for cue extraction with vision-language models for map verification. Using an agentic architecture, we modelled an iterative reasoning loop that combines Optical Character Recognition (OCR), grid-based spatial scanning, and a 3-run geometric voting method to mathematically isolate and reduce visual hallucinations. The findings highlight that the multimodal ALIGN framework significantly outperforms traditional text-only geoparsing baselines. For example, the proposed system successfully reduced the mean localization error from an unusable 10.915 km to a sub-kilometer precision of 0.593 km on a validation dataset. Furthermore, testing the framework against official Dhaka Metropolitan Police records confirmed its reliability by achieving a mean error of 0.465 km. The results provide a high-accuracy, training-free foundation for automated crash mapping in data-scarce regions, supporting evidence-driven road-safety policymaking and the integration of multimodal AI in transportation analytics.","short_abstract":"In low- and middle-income countries, public safety and urban planning initiatives frequently face a critical shortage of accurate, location-specific road crash data. Extracting reliable geospatial information from unstructured text requires overcoming the limitations of traditional text-based geocoding tools, which oft...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06316","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.06316v3","authors":"[\"MD Thamed Bin Zaman Chowdhury\",\"Moazzem Hossain\"]","published":"2025-11-09T10:44:26Z","proceeding":"cs.AI","tasks":"[\"cs.AI\"]","methods":"[\"Language Model\"]","has_code":false}